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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Getting Your Clouds Under Control: Part 2-Cloud Governance

Given the strategic importance of the cloud and size of cloud expenditures, it’s critical for enterprises to have solid controls in place to manage it all. According to our latest research, however, while most organizations agree with that sentiment, very few have put it into practice. There are distinct but related disciplines that come into play: FinOps and cloud governance. In this two-part series, we explore current state of each.

Sematext Synthetic Monitoring | Release and Features | The Best Website Monitoring Tools

Sematext’s Synthetic monitoring tool is a website monitoring solution that lets you track the availability and performance of your websites. Monitor your entire website or an individual HTTP request, including 3rd party APIs. Get the best website monitoring tools with Sematext’s synthetics and Real User monitoring tools.

DEVCOM Uses InfluxDB to Connect the Field and the Lab

The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) faces unique challenges in working with data to develop new technologies. It needs the ability to seamlessly analyze data both in the field and in the lab. Connectivity in the field can also be very unpredictable. Without a database that can handle intermittent connectivity, the systems become inefficient and waste time and money.

Honeycomb Cements Its Position as a Leader in 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant

Honeycomb ruffled the first of many feathers nearly seven years ago when we coined the term “observability” in talking about production code. Today, we get to celebrate a major victory in our push for the term to break free from its unsuitable parent category, Application Performance Monitoring (APM).

Going faster with intelligent automation

Avantra is an AI powered solution that turns your complex SAP landscape into accelerated hyperautomation. By providing an automation platform it helps SAP ops teams better manage complex mission-critical legacy environments so they can release capacity from the drag of managing complex legacy systems and redirect resources to power hyperautomation success. Shifting the focus from just managing and ‘keeping the lights on’ to creating value.

OpenTelemetry PHP | Monitoring a PHP application with OpenTelemetry

PHP is a widely popular server-side language and enjoys the top spot in terms of market share. Many world-famous organizations like Facebook have their applications written in PHP. WordPress, which powers 43% of all websites, is also built on PHP. In this tutorial, we will use OpenTelemetry to instrument a PHP application for telemetry data. It’s essential to monitor your PHP application for performance issues and bugs.

Setting up Route 53 Health Checks

We live in an age where the internet and digital data drive modern day markets, which results in huge amounts of data being generated and consumed. Hence, it has become very important for online platforms to manage this traffic and serve their customers more efficiently. In this blog we will explore the Amazon Route 53 service and see how it addresses domain name system routing and health check problems.